Jerusalem delivered by Torquato Tasso(
Book
)3,684
editions published
between
1520
and
2014
in
21
languages
and held by
10,649 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
"In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and
the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem
during the First Crusade. The siege of the city is played out a longside a magical romance of love and sacrifice, in which
the Christian knight Rinaldo succumbs to the charms of the pagan sorceress Armida, and the warrior maiden Clorinda inspires
a fatal passion in the Christian Tancred." "Tasso's masterpiece left its mark on writers from Spenser and Milton to Goethe
and Byron, and inspired countless painters and composers. This is the first English translation in modern times that faithfully
reflects both the sense and the verse form of the original. Max Wickert's fine rendering is introduced by Mark Davie, who
places Tasso's poem in the context of his life and times and points to the qualities that have ensured its lasting impact
on Western culture."--BOOK JACKET

Aminta by Torquato Tasso(
Book
)1,150
editions published
between
1580
and
2015
in
17
languages
and held by
3,229 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide

Stories from the Italian poets : with lives of the writers by Leigh Hunt(
Book
)11
editions published
between
1846
and
1906
in
English
and held by
287 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Parziale versione in prosa, con alcuni testi originali o traduzioni in versi, dei poemi di Dante, Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto
e Tasso

King Torrismondo by Torquato Tasso(
Book
)98
editions published
between
1586
and
2011
in
4
languages
and held by
263 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
This translation of Torquato Tasso's Il re Torrismondo, the first to be made directly from the Italian into English, is intended
to help those students and scholars who do not command the language of the original text. This translation provides readers
with a wider range of the Italian tragedy as a genre; it also allows readers to acquire a deeper awareness of the entire spectrum
of the Italian Renaissance in its final brilliance. Tasso's King Torrismondo provides an example of Neo-Aristotelian dramatic
theory of the second half of the fifteenth century. It incorporates into the dramatic genre elements of the epic lyric poem.
Tasso's language can also be studied as an example of "imitation" of Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, and Tasso's own epic. Finally,
Tasso's Torrismondo affords us an opportunity of comparative analysis of French, English, and Spanish literature in the development
of tragedy as a European genre

Jerusalem delivered by Torquato Tasso(
Book
)3
editions published
in
1970
in
English
and held by
258 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide